Though I’ve been going to this show for three years, I understand it’s a venerable south Regina tradition with sold-out houses for six nights every winter. Whoever picks the music is a genius: it’s always great. Saturday night’s show, for example, ended with the cast bounding off the stage to dance with, and shake hands with, audience members. And the voices that are conscripted for this fundraising project … Incredible!

The fact that it’s performed in a Catholic hall (“CTK” stands for Christ The King Roman Catholic parish in Lakeview) does not mean it’s dull. In line with the Pope’s teaching that life is meant to be fun (I am paraphrasing a little bit) there is saucy humour galore, like three priests (in black suits and fedoras, plus sunglasses, Blues Brothers-style) performing “I’m A Soul Man”.

This brings me to Guilty Pleasure No. 383. Partway through Saturday night’s performance, narrator Dennis Loisie gave an update on Saturday afternoon’s University of Regina Cougars women’s basketball game at the national championships. I’ve heard other events interrupted for Roughrider updates, but this was the first time I’d heard an update for a Cougars game — and good thing, too. U of R basketball games are one of the little-known delights in wintertime Regina. They are played in the U of R’s new gym, which is bright and lively. The quality of play is excellent and there’s a real effort to build American-college- style hoopla into the half-time and tween-the-games breaks. Admission is less than $10 and there is plenty of parking.

If the Regina Pats are Regina’s biggest wintertime sports draw, then U of R basketball is in second place, regularly drawing around 1,000. Given the quality of the play and the terrific facility, you’d think even more people would attend. See you there next autumn.

A request for help: does anybody know if the local charity Computers For Kids (which collected old computers and recycled them to the benefit of low-income families) is still operating? If so, e-mail us.

Another request for help: From far-off Bhutan came this request for info from Mike Adair : “I am hoping one of your readers will remember one of Canada’s distinguished lawyers, Cable Boville Clark, a former Rhodes scholar, who died on 23 July 1973 at age 77 in Edmonton. I am looking for his family — some of whom are in Regina. Mr. Clark was born in Brampton. He was a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan in law and studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. “He had lived in the west for many years, practicing law in both Calgary and Edmonton. As well as a brother in Windsor [W.L. Clark], Mr. Clark is survived by a brother Chalmers G. Clark in Willowdale and a sister, Mrs. Allan McMillan in Regina.

“Might I ask any family to contact me? I am a Canadian raised in Nova Scotia and at the moment I am living and working in the Kingdom of Bhutan in the eastern Himalayas.

“Finding his family is key to unlocking a mystery in my family research and I would sincerely appreciate any assistance offered. Many thanks.”

If you can help, contact Mike Adair at adair@ksc.th.com or at Box 1110, Thimphu, Bhutan.

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